Editor’s note: This is the fifth of seven pieces that will focus on the schedules of each Medina County school as it prepares for the 2011 football season.
WADSWORTH — Being decimated by injuries is never fun.
But when the aches and pains of a 2010 high school football season lost translate into a successful 2011, the […]

LIVERPOOL TWP. — Ella Skvor may only be 3 years old, but she’s already a veteran frog jumper.
The Oberlin resident and her father, Bryon Skvor, braved the rain and were crowned grand champions of the 50th annual Liverpool Township Frog Jump Festival on Sunday, already Ella’s third time in the competition and second trip to […]

From left, Medina residents Amy McPherson, Ben Flanagan and Ceili McPherson learn to make music with wooden frogs at Affair on the Square on Medina Public Square on Sunday. (GAZETTE PHOTO BY JENNIFER PIGNOLET)

Irene M. Byam (nee Lantsberry), 76, of Elyria, passed away peacefully and surrounded by her family Thursday, August 11, 2011, at the New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph in Lorain, following a long illness. She was born January 29, 1935 in Elyria and was a lifelong Elyria resident.
Irene was a member of St. Jude […]

Baby Alexis Rose Collum, of Elyria, died shortly after birth Friday, August 12, 2011, at Mercy Hospital in Lorain.
She is survived by her mother, Tabitha Groves of Elyria and her father, James Collum of Elyria; one sister, Madison Collum; and two brothers, Grady Collum and David Phelps, Jr. She is also survived by her paternal […]

CLEVELAND — Baltimore beat Detroit on Sunday to trim Cleveland’s deficit to 2 1/2 games in the Central Division standings, but the weather sure isn’t doing the Indians any favors these days.
Rain postponed another game at Progressive Field, ruining the series finale with Minnesota and the opportunity for Cleveland to record the three-game sweep of […]